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2025-10-13 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes #126

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Date

Monday, October 13, 2025 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK
This was on Columbus day

// Second Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname Affiliation GitHub Username
Karl Moll FINOS karlmoll
Péter Györök KX gyorokpeter
Javier Ramírez QuestDB javier
Latchezar Nikolov Morgan Stanley
Ross Duffy Morgan Stanley rdffy

Meeting notices

  • FINOS Project leads are responsible for observing the FINOS guidelines for running project meetings. Project maintainers can find additional resources in the FINOS Maintainers Cheatsheet.

  • All participants in FINOS project meetings are subject to the LF Antitrust Policy, the FINOS Community Code of Conduct and all other FINOS policies.

  • FINOS meetings involve participation by industry competitors, and it is the intention of FINOS and the Linux Foundation to conduct all of its activities in accordance with applicable antitrust and competition laws. It is therefore extremely important that attendees adhere to meeting agendas, and be aware of, and not participate in, any activities that are prohibited under applicable US state, federal or foreign antitrust and competition laws. Please contact legal@finos.org with any questions.

  • FINOS project meetings may be recorded for use solely by the FINOS team for administration purposes. In very limited instances, and with explicit approval, recordings may be made more widely available.

Agenda

  • (5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
  • Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
  • Review Meeting Notices (see above)
  • (5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes
  • (5 min) FINOS goings-on
  • (20 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
    • Péter gave a preview of the upcoming kdb-x docs. Specifically the module system.
      • private variables and exposing the public functions in a module via export was shown
      • .z.M and .z.m usage for referencing current module
      • how to set the search path so that you cna control where modules are looked for. Default is $QHOME
      • kdb-x can have empty projections
    • Question on when grouped attribute is actually useful for on disk data . Will be raised as a general question to KX.
  • (15 min) Brainstorming
  • (5 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn

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